A Revised “Promised Land” of BI
At first glance, this pair of tweets last week sounds like BI’s traditional campfire song with revised lyrics: At first…
The Global Nature of Big Data and Analytics
In the past few months, in addition to my usual travel around the United States, I have had the pleasure…
Takeaways From Your Next Predictive Analytics Conference
Why should one go to a predictive analytics conference? What should one take home from a conference like Predictive Analytics…
Analytics Moves To The Core: Reporting from the Gartner Summit
I attended the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit last week in Barcelona. As usual, it was a great conference,…
Conducting Remote User Research: 10 Key Concepts
The approach to user research has shifted quite a lot lately. Traditional in-person usability testing used to the be ultimate…
Is Your eCommerce Website Suffering From Usability Issues?
The usability of your ecommerce site can make or break potential sales. How can you tell if usability is an…
Socialytics: Social Analytics Earns Its Portmanteau
When an idea goes viral, it becomes a meme, and when two memes are associated for long enough to be…
Hadoop to Be Pervasive By 2015
Gartner projects that by 2015, 65% of packaged analytic applications with advanced analytics will come with Hadoop embedded. Sounds rational,…
Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,” I detailed a five step process to transition…
IBM to Acquire Star Analytics for Financial Data Integration
IBM this week announced its pending acquisition of the Star Analytics product portfolio. Star Analytics is a privately held company that offers…
